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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (11485)	11/18/2009 4:08:23 PM
From: Mary Cluney	1 Recommendation Respond to of 42652

<<<Then the learning curve, level of effort, and start-up costs for the doctors would be less onerous once they undertook automating their operations.>>> The learning curve is too steep. I recently went to a doctor who is not that old. He maybe close to 50 years old. He has a good 15-20 years left but he still writes everything down in long hand. Even people in his own office can't read his hand writing. I have never seen him on a computer even though there are computers in his office. But I can understand why a very competent and successful doctor would be reluctant to change the way he does business. He is not the problem. The problem is with the software industry and software developers. It is full of hype. It is full of people who think they are geniuses and too often can not relate to people. For no reason whatsoever, they make software far too difficult for people to use. Their rationale, I suppose, is that it is your fault if you find it difficult to learn their software. Most people buy into this crap. People who are familiar with how computers work make an extraordinary effort in learning the special codes and sequences and hidden short cuts to get by. Once they learn these secrets, they are coopted into telling people that oh yeah, it's real easy. It is obvious. For most people, I will bet that includes anybody who frequent this thread, that they have to had put up with hundreds of hours wasted on software that should have been written to be intuitively obvious. I don't think real productive people, like doctors should have to put in all those hours to get past software that should be written so they are more intuitively obvious. Software developers, designers, and programmers get away with way too much crap.